Comment & Opinion

The Los Angeles Police Department spent $315.5 million on overtime last year, and the fire department spent $283.4 million, leading to inflated take-h...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If you take the long view, America’s economic outlook is pretty bleak. Like a lot of rich countries, it is overwhelmed by debt it has...

If you’re afraid to let your opponent talk, you probably aren’t winning the debate. But it’s also hard to win the war of ideas when your audience can’...

How do you find out what’s happening in your community? Let’s talk about it. You may see me with my clipboard at farmers’ markets and festivals, askin...

The Department of the Interior spent $2.6 billion to help state and local governments and nonprofits manage drought conditions in the Colorado River B...

Pennsylvania’s political map is changing, but not in a way anyone anticipated. Defying political convention, Pennsylvanians are leaving the state’s tw...

The Facebook algorithm finally did something useful this week. It handed me SubwayTakes podcast reels — and now I’m hooked. I did not expect to like i...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Almost 250 years after the American Revolution, it took a visiting British monarch to remind Congress what the rebellion stood fo...

In recognition of National Nurses Week (May 6-12), students in my health assistance class at the Seneca Highlands Career and Technical Center are prep...

Butler, Pennsylvania, was a wake-up call. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting Saturday night was what happens when leaders hit the snooze ...

Most Americans think of the Bill of Rights as a bespoke 1789 creation for a nation that was, in the signature “Hamilton” lyric of Lin-Manuel Miranda, ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The gunman who forced the postponement of Donald Trump’s first presidential appearance at Washington’s biggest annual press dinner ...

I first learned to read and write by tracing the carbons on my mom’s food order pads. She was a car hop at a local burger joint. This was before I eve...

SMETHPORT — Recognized by both the Pennsylvania State House and Senate, April 26-May 2nd, 2026 is Conservation District Week. We all know the importan...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Assisted suicide. Or, if you like, you can use the more genteel term adopted by New York state: Medical aid in dying. Take your pick....

An April 20 PennLive/Bravo Group Morning Scrapple poll contained several headline-worthy numbers. President Trump’s Pennsylvania approval slipped to 3...

The Spirit Airlines saga highlights the folly of government industrial policy — whether promoted by Democrats or the current president. Last week, Pre...

While a spate of school shooting threats at a South Texas middle school last week were not credible, they were disturbing and serious, putting childre...

An ounce of prevention, it has been said, is worth a pound of cure. That proverb is attributed to Benjamin Franklin, who purportedly coined it in a 17...

TSA officers screened three million passengers a day this spring. They did it without paychecks. Some sold plasma to pay their bills. Others slept in ...